You're about to get a textbook lesson in why you should always, always check vintage gadgets before you toss them out. A woman discarding her late husband's electronics inadvertently gave a Milpitas recycling firm an ultra-rare Apple I computer that ultimately sold for $200,000. While the recycler's policy is to share half the revenue from these sales, the woman refused to offer her name or get a receipt -- she's missing out on a $100,000 check for trading in a piece of computing history. The company would recognize her on sight, but its only chance of rewarding the mystery donor right now is to get the word out and hope she returns.

Remember cartridges? They were chunky bits of plastic and electronics that games used to be distributed on – the last one was the N64, released back in 1996. The good thing about a cartridge is that when you own one the creator of that game can’t suddenly take it away from you. This is one of advantages of the cartridge when compared to digital distribution that has led to the development of the Retro VGS (Retro Video Games System), which is an upcoming cartridge-based games console.It’s the project of Mike Kennedy, who is also the publisher of Retro Magazine, and he’s looking to bring it to Kickstarter this summer. For now, he has a pretty solid idea of what the Retro VGS is for and what he hopes it will do.
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One of the biggest problems facing video games as an artistic medium is one of preservation. Thanks to HD remasters, digital distribution and the Internet Archivethat's becoming less of an issue. But we still need to do more to keep a record and constant catalog of gaming's past moments. That's the idea behind the awkwardly named "Intellivision Gen2 Video Games for PC & Mac" on Kickstarter. As you might imagine, it's modernized versions of Intellivision titles. Astrosmash, Nightstalker andShark! Shark! will get the new pixel art, expanded levels and scope should the project reach its $100,000 goal.

The source code of MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) has long been freely available, but it's never been completely libre. Instead, it's been available under a modified BSD license that prohibits, among other things, commercial use of the code. MAME engineer Miodrag Milanovic explains that such a license was put in place to deter "misuse of MAME in illegal ways," but it also kept legitimate commercial entities doing business with the software. Examples of such could be museums that charge entry fees from using MAME in their exhibits, or copyright holders rereleasing vintage games encapsulated inside MAME. Now the projectwants to go fully open. Milanovic continues: "Our aim is to help legal license owners in distributing their games based on MAME platform, and to make MAME become a learning tool for developers working on development boards." As of yet, there are no specific details about the new license.http://games.slashdot.org/story/15/0...ully-libre-one

GameStop’s American pilot scheme to start selling retro hardware, games and accessories could come to the UK.

The firm announced last month that it would be reintroducing retro stock into its stores. Consumers will be able to trade-in old consoles, including the SNES and Mega Drive. They will then be available to buy on its site. “We’re working closely with our partners in the US and if it proves successful it could be something we will look to roll out in the UK,” said VP of business development for Europe Niall Lawlor.Senior director of pre-owned merchandise Jon Haes added: “We feel that GameStop can provide customers easy access to buy and sell these products. As the leader in new and pre-owned games retail, retro gaming is a natural extension of what we do and it provides another value opportunity for GameStop customers.“Customer interest in retro categories has continued to be strong for quite some time. In fact, 20 per cent of the unique searches on GameStop.com are related to retro product categories, including the Nintendo 64 and Super Nintendo.”

Although they went live at the very start of the year, it was like all of our Christmases had come at once when Archive.org added 2,400 playable MS-DOS games to its website. Retro titles like Maniac Mansion, Oregon Trail and Doom are all available, with the only downside being that you have to visit each specific game's page to play them. However, the eagle-eyed folk at Wired noticed these have recently started working on Twitter, meaning you can get all of your social networking done while simultaneously saving Sandy Pantz from the evil Dr Fred. Thanks to Twitter's Cards platform, all you have to do is tweet the URL of the game you want to play and it'll take care of the rest. You can even embed the tweet (and thus the game) inside a webpage, exactly like we've done below.

As the Neo Geo came out in 1990, making it 25 years old this year, its creator SNK Playmore is celebrating the cartridge-based console with a commemorative sale.Until May 7th, most of SNK’s games on iOS and Android are on sale at just $0.99. You can check out the company’s App Store games page for all the iOS games. While the company’s Google Play games page will get you to all its Android games with ease.The full list of games on sale is below:

Over eight years in the making, the Dragon Force II English translation is complete! The project has been a truly massive undertaking, combining the efforts of twenty dedicated storyline translators, an additional thirteen translators of gameplay text, a programmer, and a small army of script editors, tinkerers and testers.
Set 500 years after the first game, Dragon Force II follows a slate of monarchs who must band together to defeat a new threat looming over Legendra. Along the way, they learn the value of friendship and unravel the mystery of what happened to the original Dragon Force after Madruk’s defeat. The eight-scenarios approach and Strategy RPG formula will immediately appeal to fans of the first game.
Dragon Force II differs from the original in three significant respects. Most importantly, players can now assign two troop types to their generals for added gameplay depth. An item forging system puts greater focus on the spoils of war, and Sega of Japan assembled a crack team of voice actors to bring the story alive; with the English translation in place, the game has a subbed anime feel.
At this time, Dragon Force II’s FMVs remain un-subbed and the end-game credits un-translated, as FMV editing represents a new challenge beyond the scope of the project’s original goals. Hopefully these can be addressed in subsequent updates.
We hope Dragon Force fans will brave the challenges of Saturn emulation and the confusion that’s sure to arise from the game’s numerous prints to give the sequel a well-deserved spin! Here’s an hour’s worth of preview footage to whet your appetite, and head on over to the website linked below to get started!

Before you begin, please note that this requires an original 3DS or 3DS XL, the n3DS will not work. Secondly, this requires a firmware version on or before 9.5.0-22. And finally, you will already need to own a GBC game. That includes games from the ambassador program. There will be a list of required materials at the bottom.

To begin, you will need to remove the SD card from your 3DS, and insert it into your computer. Next, you will need to download GBCRomSwap from the link at the bottom of the post, and copy the file code.bin to the root of your SD card(that means its not in a folder, its directly on the sd card). You will also need to copy a GBC rom, with the filename “rom.gbc” (without the quotes, also into the root of the sd card).

Next, you’ll have to put the SD card back into your 3ds, and turn it on. Open a Virtual console Gameboy Color game, and open the virtual console menu (Tapping the touch screen). Reset the game (You will lose your save data, so make sure to use a game you don’t care about) and push home. Open the browser, and go to http://loadcode.projectpokemon.org . Your ds will pause and hang for a moment, and you will see a color on the touch screen. Red means the VC ROM was not found in the RAM. Yellow means the ROM you were injecting is too large, either try a smaller ROM or a VC game with a bigger ROM. Finally, Green means it was successful.

Go back into the game after your 3DS crashes back to the home menu with an error, and reopen your VC game. Open the VC menu, and touch reset once more. When it resets, it should load the GBC game!

This process can also be done with Gameboy (Not advance) games! Just make sure to use a VC Gameboy game as the base for your ROM.

gbc

Requirements:
◾Original 3DS/3DS XL
◾Firmware 9.5.0-22 or lower
◾SD Card with enough space for the ROM and exploit file
◾Computer with working internet connection & a way to transfer files to the SD card
◾VC Game from the eShop, GBC for a GBC ROM, or GB for a GB ROM.
◾A GB or GBC ROM to load

GameStop is trying a new tactic as it faces increased competition from the likes of Gamefly, Amazon and other online retailers: It's going old school. IGN reports that beginning April 24th, the company will once again begin accepting classic consoles for trade-in and sale in 250 of its brick-and-mortar locations around NYC and Birmingham, Alabama. Technically, sellers will be able to offload their old consoles in an actual store but buyers will only be able to purchase these units online. Most every console from the 8-bit era on up to PS2's will reportedly be offered. And because the used consoles are first inspected and certified by GameStop before being put back up for sale, they're expected to come with warranties on par with those offered by the original manufacturers. GameStop hopes to roll the service out nationwide by the end of the year.

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